The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin (1896)
Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin (original title)

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Credited cast:
	Jeanne d'Alcy	...	Woman
	Georges Méliès	...	Magician

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An elegantly dressed man enters through a stage door onto a set with decorated back screen, a chair and small table. He brings a well-dressed women through the door, spreads a newspaper on the floor, and places the chair on it. She sits and fans herself; he covers her with a diaphanous cloth. She disappears; he tries to conjure her back with incomplete results. Can he go beyond the bare bones of a conjuring trick and succeed in the complete reconstitution of a the lady? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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